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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of “Gone” by Michael Blencowe
6th June 2021
We are delighted to be able to offer 3 copies of “Gone: A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures” by Michael Blencowe in our latest giveaway, It is a charmingly written and poignant book looking at the impact of human action on the animal world. It is truly thought provoking.
UK only Giveaway
Inspired by his childhood obsession with extinct species, Blencowe takes us around the globe – from the forests of New Zealand to the ferries of Finland, from the urban sprawl of San Francisco to an inflatable crocodile on Brighton’s Widewater Lagoon. Spanning five centuries, from the last sighting of New Zealand’s Upland Moa to the 2012 death of the Pinta Island Giant Tortoise, Lonesome George, his memoir is peppered with the accounts of the hunters and naturalists of the past as well as revealing conversations with the custodians of these totemic animals today.
Featuring striking artworks that resurrect these forgotten creatures, each chapter focuses on a different animal, revealing insights into their unique characteristics and habitats; the history of their discovery and just how and when they came to be lost to us.
Blencowe inspects the only known remains of a Huia egg at Te Papa, New Zealand; views hundreds of specimens of deceased Galapagos tortoises and Xerces Blue butterflies in the California Academy of Sciences; and pays his respects to the only soft tissue remains of the Dodo in the world. Warm, wry and thought-provoking, Gone shows that while each extinction story is different, all can inform how we live in the future.
Read our review here. We loved it!
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Then, in the comments below, tell us which animal you fear might die out, becoming extinct, within our lifetime. Do this by midnight, 19th June and the first three names chosen at random will be sent a copy each.
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The winners are:
SalB
Bethany Irons
Lisa
The Black Rhino or certain types of tigers
Bees. Without bees pollinating our food supplies we’re doomed.
I didn’t realise until recently there are over 40 000 species of animals in danger of extinction. What a great loss to the world it would be if beautiful creatures like the tiger die out. What a mess mankind is making of our planet!
Bees
My favourite animal of all time is the Tiger. They are in danger of becoming extinct.
Rhinos
hedgehogs
Polar Bears with 5he ice caps melting there is greater risk to these magnificent creatures
Orca
Tigers
Bees
Amur leopard. There is only an estimated 100 adults left in the wild, yet no-one seems to of even heard of these amazing big cats.
Orang utans
Tigers
I fear elephants might die out. They are so intelligent they would probably be able to tell something was wrong if they were one of the last few left.
Polar Bears. I have always loved Polar Bears and have watched in anguish over the decades as their habitat disappears.
Asian elephants
I think it will be tigers..such magnificent animals
Elephants
Polar Bears
Giant pandas. Such incredible gentle-looking beasts.
I worry we will loose elephants…so sad that such a beautiful animal could become extinct
Hello, I worry that Polar Bears might die out.
Just about anything really ! Elephant perhaps as so many killed for ivory ,but just about any species may in the next fifty years as humans through greed mostly care nothing about animals and use and misuse for their own advantage.
This book sounds very interesting,maybe I would be heartbroken reading it, my aged p who is in his eighties and watches all the natural history shows on TV that I, as an animal ” lover ” avoid ,would be fascinated I am sure.
Black rhinos – why do people hunt for their own gains and profits!
elephants
Ah! The million dollar question!
It does rather depend on whose lifetime we are talking about here, as some of us are a little older than others! 🙂
Every animal lost is devastating for future generations, however Orangutans and other members of the ape family, share so much with we humans, that it is almost like witnessing the demise of a relative!
Orangutans and Black Rhinos are critically endangered.
elephants 🙁
Elephants 🙁
Elephants unfortunately
Pangolin-after being used as a scapegoat for covid-19 some might kill this animal to extinction.
The tiger.
Pangolin
The rhino
Rhinocerous
The Snow Leopard
I think very unfortunately elephants
The honey bee
Rhinos
elephant
The Bengal Tiger
I’m so worried that Tiger’s will die out. They have been my favourite animal since I was a child and I’ve always wanted to see one on a safari or something, but I wonder if they’ll be around much longer.
It’s such a shame what humans feel they have a right to do to nature and animals.
Orangutans
I fear for the hedgehog. We’re lucky in that we have a few that visit our garden regularly but we certainly don’t get as many as we used to get, mainly because a large housebuilding company bought the fields by my house, ripped out the hedgerows and destroyed their habitat.
Kakapo
The Elephant. What an absolute disgrace that would be
The tarsier
Rhinos
Orangutans
the polar bear 🙁
Rhinos
Sumatran tigers
The Javan Rhino.
The Polar Bear.
Snow leopards.